Psych nursing blog
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3. A patient from an extended family of mental patients, you might call them a clan, (if you made sure you remained anonymous) comprising far too many siblings, cousins and assorted relatives, who’d been rejected, neglected, abused and farked up by their useless, feckless parents and aunties and uncles – who themselves had been rejected, neglected,…
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At a regular community team morning meeting, where the day’s jobs are assigned, a female patient’s name came up. She was on a downward slide and thus needed a visit to check her mental state. NB there are heaven knows how many patients ‘under’ a community team but don’t have an assigned CPN or CCO.…
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If you’re going to last in this job, you have to accept there are some things you cannot change. a) it’s inevitable that some patients will top themselves, b) that some patients have symptoms (both positive and negative) that will never improve, resolve or remit. (*) Which means they are never going to get better…
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Applying the sick role There’s an unfashionable (at least it is until I become Emperor) sociological theory about ‘the sick role.’ In short, Talcott Parsons posited illness was social (as well as biological). Ill people cannot perform their normal social roles, e.g. work, family. Parsons argued that if too many people claimed to be ill…
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